Hailie’s Song is a song by Eminem which appears on his album The Eminem Show. Opening up with a brief drum bit, a clean guitar soon comes in and a listener gets the impression right away that the instrumentation and overall feel on this track is far different than …

The band the Calling has a really known song that came out a few years ago by the name Wherever You Will Go. It is song based around afew chords and some really nice guitar volume swells. This song by the band has a really big mainstream sound to …

Ciara ft. Justin Timberlake
“Love Sex Magic”
Fantasy Ride
LaFace Records
Director: Diane Martel
Ciara delivers to us what is probably the best single and music video yet from her third album, “Fantasy Ride”, titled “Love Sex Magic”. Inspired by the Crazy Horse Cabaret of Paris descent which is a ‘Love-Sex-Magic Show’ in of …

Lil’ Kim
“No Matter What They Say”
The Notorious K.I.M.
Queen Bee Entertainment/Atlantic Records
After about a four year long wait, Lil’ Kim returns with her sophomore album “The Notorious K.I.M.” with her first single and music video from the album being “No Matter What They Say” which finds Lil’ Kim, Mary J. …

Back Street Girl is a song by The Rolling Stones which appears on their record Between The Buttons. This track starts off with a nice and melodic acoustic guitar pattern in the introduction of this song and also features what sounds to be a faint recorder as well. Jagger …

Overview - After Bathing At Baxter’s, Jefferson Airplane’s third effort, continues and expands on the psychedelic sound that the band developed on their previous album, Surrealistic Pillow. This album is very energetic for the most part, although it does have some slightly more melodic songs as well as experimental …

I’m not totally a fan of girl groups but something about this song caught my attention. I was originally browsing in Instagram when one of my friends posted a song that what I thought to be original. It had a caption “Secret Love Song” and I listened to it, …

Moon Is Up is a song by The Rolling Stones which appears on their album Voodoo Lounge. This song starts off with a guitar and bass part which has an interesting rhythm but is somewhat difficult to describe without a person actually listening to this track. Jagger soon comes …

The Shadows fall band is all hype and I do not know what the big deal with them is. Shadows Falls really has no good songs out there and quit frankly at first they were all metal and than they thought they had talent so they tried to sound …

Secret Heart performed by Curtis Stigers is a very good to excellent album performed in a male jazz singer style similar to Harry Connick Jr. and Michael Buble.
My favorite song was the familiar Days of Wine and Roses” that Stigers makes his own by using a more bouncy arrangement …

Overview - Disraeli Gears, Cream’s second album, is a great musical album and has strong vocal performances as well in just about every track on here. I will say that most of the record is more laid back and mellow but they’re are still some great energetic tracks on …

All Hope Is Gone. This is the band’s fifth album and fourth album on Roadrunner Records, released in August of 2008 and produced by Dave Fortman and Slipknot. The band recorded the album in their home state of Iowa this time, and the album is heavier, faster, and better …

My Girls is a song by Animal Collective and the second track on their 2009 release, Merriweather Post Pavilion. Opening up with an upbeat and happy sounding synthesized intro, My Girls is one of the most accessible Animal Collective tracks ever put out so if you’re a listener just …

One of the songs by Hard Rock Band Tesla off their first Album Mechanical Resonance, is a cover of Little Suzi’s on the up by Pop band Phd. The Tesla version is alot better in my opinion then the original song. The original is really boring and is way …

Sting is a very famous singer in the world. But in China, most of people don’t know him well or even don’t hear his name. As a Chinese, I heart his name from the film ‘Leon-The Professional’. Sting sang the theme song ’shape of my heart’ about it. I …

This collection was released in 2006, the band hasn’t been with Roadrunner Records for a long time, and wasn’t at the time of the release of this collection, it’s a pointless cash in, the record label shamelessly gathered up tracks by Spineshank, Sepultura, Type O Negative, Suffocation and Deicide …

One way you can recognize a guitar player is by checking the person’s fingertips for wounds caused by strings. There are several factors that make strings rust, such as proximity to the sea, sweat, humidity and storage. Whichever reason, the fact is that oxidized strings hurt the flesh much …

This is perhaps one of the most underrated songs that Prince has ever written. On his LoveSexy album, this song is the epitome of intimacy. The lyrics have this way of getting under your skin. Perhaps it’s the quiet inensity of Prince’s voice. Perhaps it’s …

The Spontaneous Combustion Of John is a song by the Flaming Lips which appears on the band’s third effort, Telepathic Surgery. Opening up with a dark clean guitar riff right from the start, a lead guitar enters the track and comes in now and then which does a nice …

Saved is the title track of an album released by Bob Dylan. The track starts off with an upbeat guitar and organ part which has a very gospel-like sound to it, particularly once Dylan comes in with the vocals and the lyrics of the song. As if this wasn’t …

Wake Up Dead is a song by Megadeth which appears on their album Peace Sells… But Whose Buying? The track opens up with an extremely aggressive drum rhythm before Mustaine’s guitar comes in along with his vocals which are more of a spoken word section which just sort of …

Jay-Z ft. Beyonce Knowles
“‘03 Bonnie & Clyde”
The Blueprint 2: The Gift and the Curse
Roc-A-Fella Records
Director: Chris Robinson
Although it borrows heavily from Tupac Shakur’s song “Me and My Girlfriend”, “03′ Bonnie & Clyde” is a pretty entertaining remake. This is Jay-Z’s first single and music video from his seventh album …

On youtube I found a video entitled worlds fastest banjo player. This unique country instrument with four strings has been the bone of all kinds of folk and country music. Todd Taylor is probably the master at the instrument. In the video he plays dueling banjos at a …

Hollywood Undead released their debut album “Swan Songs” in August 2008. It’s hard to describe their music genre, as they pull from so many different styles. They are most commonly referred to as rap rock, but I feel their music goes so beyond that label.
The …

Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, a track written primarily by John Lennon for The Beatles’ record Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band would have to be one of the more psychedelic tracks which the band has written, or at least one of the tracks most heavily associated with …

I attended the Taylor Swift concert on May 14th, 2010 at the Nassau Colesium in Long Island with my boyfriend. We bought the tickets after they were sold out from this website that basically buys and sells tickets for concerts. We ended up paying a total of like two …

Bruce Springsteen released Magic in 2007, an album eagerly awaited by fans and critics alike. His first outing with the E-Street Band since 2002’s The Rising, a lot was expected of the Boss this time around.
Hopes, high that this album would be as impressive as the one from …

Overview —“ Warning, Green Day’s sixth album, really has quite a different sound than what I was expecting it to have and definitely not in a good way. The band seems to try and merge their electric and acoustic influences on this album, but unlike on past works where …

Tool’s 1993 album Undertow is not only my favorite Tool album it may be my favorite album period. Intolerance is a heavy riffing straight up metal song, on Prison Sex they drop the low E to a B to get the extra crunch of the song, the lyrics like …

I am not a fan of Elton John. This doesn’t mean that I don’t acknowledge he’s a very talented singer because he is. I certainly have sung along to numerous hits of his over the years. He’s just a little too over the top for me, …

If you are unaware of who Eminem is you should know he is a rapper who is signed to Dr. Dre under Aftermath Records. He is famous for hits like �My Name Is�, �Lose Yourself� and �Stan� to name just a few. Well the concept behind �Curtain Call� is …

Most know Zack de la Rocha as the vocalist of the well known political rap-metal band Rage Against The Machine. Only some know him as the former front-man of Inside Out, a lesser known hardcore punk band, as well. During their somewhat-short time as a band, Inside Out released …

In Response To All The Songs Erich Beckmann Writes is a song by Sledding With Tigers which appears as the third track on their debut release, No Randy No. Opening up with a chorus of voices starting the track off with a quick pace, this song returns the overall …

Garth Brooks does a song called If Tomorrow Never Comes. This is a soft spoken song that talks about all the what if’s, when it comes to the future. It talks about losing loved ones and never telling them how you really feel before they died and not …

Justin Timberlake’s “Justified” is a pretty good album, in my opinion. I was a huge fan of N’Sync back in the day so I will be the first person to tell you how much I hated the thought of any of the five members of that boy band becoming …

Penguin Penguin is a song by Animal Collective and is the second track on their second release, Danse Manatee. Opening abruptly from the previous track, the song has a similar feeling to the opening song on the record except it goes to even further extremes. Whereas A Manatee Dance …

The Seven Deadly Sins is a song by Flogging Molly which appears on their album Within A Mile Of Home. The track opens up with a vocal solo accompanied only by some drum sticks in the background before some background vocals come in to provide a fuller sound. A …

Girls is a song by D12 which appears as a hidden track on their record Devils Night. The track opens up in a fairly laidback tone and features Eminem basically going off on a rant against the members of Limp Bizkit for saying some certain things about either Eminem …

Overview —“ Side I of The Who’s second album, A Quick One, is a pretty nice mix of traditional sounding songs, more energetic rock and roll songs, humorous songs, and just downright strange songs. I think that a lot of this mix is due to how the songwriting on …

Overview —“ Wake Me Up When September Ends, the fourth music video released for American Idiot by Green Day makes commentary against the United States going into Iraq. The music video definitely returns to the form of a performance and story music video, this time the story is extremely …

I have been listening to this album for over a week now. I even listen to it in bed before I sleep. The reason for this is very simple. It’s brilliant. Where do I even begin to review this band? First of all they call this genre Deathcore. I …

“The Day I Tried To Live” is just one of many singles off of Soundgarden’s absolutely amazing 1994 release “Superunknown”. Soundgarden was probably the most interesting group out of the Big 4 back in the day. Where Alice in Chains was known as being the heavier more “metal”, Pearl …

Ciara ft. Ludacris
“Oh”
Goodies
LaFace Records
Director: The Fat Cats
Ciara’s “Oh” is the third single and music video from the “Goodies” album, following “Goodies” and “1, 2 Step”, the Fat Cats direct this time around. Ciara is sitting with little Ciara as she watches a video player which, upon zooming in, shows …

Hell’s Angel’s Cracker Factory is a song by The Flaming Lips which appears on their third studio album, Telepathic Surgery. I’ll note right now that this track is quite an ambitious piece of music and that it’s track listing is just over twenty-three minutes long. Because of its extreme …

Ever since Arctic Monkeys burst onto the scene in 2006 with their debut album Whatever People Say I Am That Is What I Am Not there has been a growing interest about the British indie rock group. Combining lyrical wit with fast paced, edgy guitar sounds, the band …

Dreaming is a song by System Of A Down which appears on the second half of their double record Mezmerize/Hypnotize. Dreaming starts off with a very quick guitar riff from Malakian which has an interesting sound before an extremely powerful drum rhythm along with the bass and Tankian’s vocals …

Lisa Loeb, a New York based singer-songwriter is definitely one of those artists who I’ve loved from day one. I’ve always admired the lyrical ability and distinctive voice of the quirky singer who is known for the hit “Stay”. While Lisa Loeb has really only had one song that …

This is Papa Roach’s third studio album, released in 2004, the band took a step away from Nu Metal and Rap Metal, and delve deep into the emo scene, Getting Away With Murder is a really good title for such an album, because they are in a way, they …

United States Of Eurasia (+ Collateral Damage) is a track by Muse which appears on their most recent record, The Resistance. For those of you who have heard this track then I’m sure you can agree with me when I say that it seems like Queen had a good …

Lightning Strikes Twice is a song by Iron Maiden which appears on their record Virtual XI. The track starts off in a very melodic fashion with a clean guitar part as well as a lead melodic solo coming through the left channel of the track as you can also …